Walking Inside the Story

to Draw--to cause to go in a certain direction (as by leading)
or
to produce a likeness or representation by making line on a surface
Merriam-Webster.com

Let us learn to draw out students by using drama and story to represent and "BE" in a fictional world

Steven Moline calls Visual Literacy "our second language." (2011)

Research shows that whenever engaged and competent readers are reading they create intense visualizations in the mind.

When reading fiction or non-fiction narratives this can be called a "story world."

Bottom Line: Readers who do not "see" what they read cannot be said to be reading at all. (Wilhelm, 2012, p.13).

Now Imagine What happens when we draw out students by creating a story world that we all engage in?

Using Ensemble Storytelling

A New Way to Jazz The Story

Can you Jazz a Disinterested Student by:

• Asking Plot Questions
• Trying to "popcorn" read
• Assign more reading
• Add additional worksheets

We forget

Welcome to

Let us demonstrate

First Step

As we know the pigeon is not allowed to ride the bus, but he has decided to go to traffic school.

He has written to the School Bus Commission asking to ride the bus and says he will sue if he is not given the right to drive the bus.

Second Step

Who can we be, what roles "teacher in-role" (Heathcote, 1990) can we be and be invested in the story?

Third Step

What roles will heighten the investment? How can you build agency into the problems of the text? What clients can be served for the story? "Mantle of the Expert, 1990)

Step Four

What are ways to trouble

Step Five

What are ways we can
imagine together?

Step Six

What did you learn?

• What would you change?
• What was a point that the story was re-discovered?
• What was a point that the story was realized?
• How will you build on what you did tomorrow and in the future?

Important Points to Know

• Steps do not necessarily work in order--they can occur at the same time.
• There is no prescribed direction. You work as a "story mediator" and create, trouble, and play in the world with the students.
• The point is not to finish the story, but to build the inquiry.
• Smart, small, grow tall. But keep working on it.

Points to Consider

• You are more an architect for learning, but not a boss, instead someone who uses play and story to help students learn in a collective (Ensemble) method.
• You give yourself permission to play, take risks, make mistakes, learn, and have fun in the discovery.

Let us see this work with beanstalks

What will we do with

My father is being treated unfairly..it is cruel and unusual punishment

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The note said an emergency meeting was called. Parents invited. A new boy...his name was August, he was different.

They said she needed to be "modernized." Everyone can't come in.

No bombs have ever been dropped on our soil. or have they?